David Lipsky
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David Lipsky is an American author and journalist best known for his book-length interview with David Foster Wallace, which inspired the film "The End of the Tour."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Lipsky canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12886321 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Lipsky Context triple: [The End of the Tour, basedOnAuthor, David Lipsky]
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A.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
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B.
George Packer
George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer best known for his political reporting and books such as "The Assassins' Gate" and "The Unwinding."
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C.
Joe Klein
Joe Klein is an American political columnist and author best known for writing the novel "Primary Colors," a thinly veiled satire of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.
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D.
J. Anthony Lukas
J. Anthony Lukas was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and author renowned for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on social and political issues.
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E.
Lew Lipton
Lew Lipton was an American screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood silent and early sound films.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Lipsky Target entity description: David Lipsky is an American author and journalist best known for his book-length interview with David Foster Wallace, which inspired the film "The End of the Tour."
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A.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
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B.
George Packer
George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer best known for his political reporting and books such as "The Assassins' Gate" and "The Unwinding."
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C.
Joe Klein
Joe Klein is an American political columnist and author best known for writing the novel "Primary Colors," a thinly veiled satire of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign.
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D.
J. Anthony Lukas
J. Anthony Lukas was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and author renowned for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on social and political issues.
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E.
Lew Lipton
Lew Lipton was an American screenwriter active during the early 20th century, known for his work in Hollywood silent and early sound films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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film ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ novel ⓘ short story collection ⓘ |
| author |
David Lipsky
NERFINISHED
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David Lipsky NERFINISHED ⓘ David Lipsky NERFINISHED ⓘ David Lipsky NERFINISHED ⓘ David Lipsky NERFINISHED ⓘ David Lipsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guggenheim Fellowship
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National Magazine Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
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Iowa Writers' Workshop NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuyvesant High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Rolling Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lipsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
creative writing
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literary journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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literary fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
Harper's Magazine
NERFINISHED
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Rolling Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
David Foster Wallace
NERFINISHED
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David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Military Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
NERFINISHED
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ Losing Our Cool NERFINISHED ⓘ Once More to the Ghetto and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ The Art Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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non-fiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: David Lipsky Description of subject: David Lipsky is an American author and journalist best known for his book-length interview with David Foster Wallace, which inspired the film "The End of the Tour."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.